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Straight answers about clutches

I really need some help! I've got an '01 S60 T5 and it's got a 5 speed in it. The clutch grabs when the peddle is almost all the way out. There is a little bit of free play when the peddle is all the way out, but it isn't really "free"....there is just a little pressure on it. Oh, and it seems to be good and tight, because it doesn't slip as far as I can tell.

Can somebody explain what a Volvo hydraulic clutch should feel like? Where should it grab?

Would it be smart to give another Volvo a try to see how it's clutch works? If they grab after a lot of travel, then that's the way they work......but I can't get anyone to just spell it out for me.

thanks!......I mean it. john p in CT.

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John P.
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Take-up should begin at about 1/2 of travel or less, John.

Have you checked the fluid level in the hydraulic fluid reservoir for the clutch? If down as much as your question indicates, there's likely a leak somewhere. Such a leak is acceptable *no*where.

bob noble Reno, NV, USA

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Bob Noble

Hi,

never had a manual Volvo, but all my others you could adjust the take-up to where you wanted it - prefer about 11/2 inches from the floor personally but some prefer it almost at top.

Check near the top of the clutch pedal to see if there is an adjusting nut.

rgds

Peter

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Peter

Peter wrote (and I corrected for the top-posting):

I think with hydraulic clutches any adjustment doesn't get made at the master (pedal) end, but at the slave end, and the ones I'd had were all pretty much self-adjusting.

If it grabs nearly at the top, the disc may well have started pushing up daisies, although that seems incredibly early to have done so.

Has it always had the action up at the top?

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Lane Gray, Czar Castic

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